Comments on: Photography Books Worth Reading

By: Mark English

Mark English — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:16:38 +0000

With Andrew’s permission, I thought that reader’s of Bryan Peterson’s books (”Understanding exposure”, “Learning to See Creatively”, and “Beyond Portraiture”) might be interested to know that Bryan will be coming to Vancouver for an all-day workshop in February next year. Bryan is an excellent speaker and perhaps one of the best and most creative instructors working today. More information on my web-site at www.pacificlight.ca.

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:09:27 +0000

*AU$ to CDN$ conversion*

Ooh, that’s not bad :)

I check out the website of pretty much everyone who comments. If you consider it worthwhile to read what I have to say and repsond, I consider it worth the time to see what you have to say.

This goes double if what you’ve got to say is useful or interesting. I don’t always comment though, I just really liked those photos.

By: damon

damon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:32:47 +0000

Andrew,
Yeah, I own a copy. I bought after reading many good reviews about it. The first person I saw writing about it was Donncha over at inphotos.org.

It only cost AU$30 from memory.

ps. Thanks for visiting my photoblog :)

By: Firda

Firda — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:31:15 +0000

I love Photo Idea Index by Jim Krause. It might be pretty basic but it'll sure to give you ideas during one of those dry spells. Other favourites are Photography of Natural Things and Photographing The World Around You, both by Freeman Patterson and both are quite inspiring. I picked up The Negative by Ansel Adam last week. Still have yet to read it but it looks interesting.

By: Ed Z

Ed Z — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:27:09 +0000

good list! - now I’m curious about that “after dark” book… might have to check it out!

By: photographyVoter.com

photographyVoter.com — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:28:27 +0000

Photography Books Worth Reading…

It’s been a while since I’ve written about photography books. I spend so much time reading photography blogs online that it becomes second nature to seek the information you want online first, forget paper. I’ve recently taken up learning from de…

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:21:21 +0000

Ooh, thanks Damon!

I’ve seen that one on the shelves at Chapters, but I hadn’t actually picked it up and looked at it yet.

Do you own a copy of it or have you just grabbed it from the library?

By: damon

damon — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:21:03 +0000

A book that covers all the basics in an easy to understand way is Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson.

It's good for the beginner and also for those who aren't still beginners but sometimes need a quick refresher on some of the concepts.

It also provides plenty of good demo photographs.